Duplicated messages

[Mark Adams]

Hi Jeremy,

Are you saying that something in these messages is crashing Mailscanner?
Everything seems to be OK right now, but all 70 of the emails (all
different types and from different servers) are now in the quarantine
because of "Other Bad Content Detected" with the report "MailScanner:
Message attempted to kill MailScanner". It seems it succeeded...

On 28 July 2015 at 15:59, Jeremy McSpadden <jeremy at fluxlabs.net> wrote:

>  It's probably looping/crashing mailscanner. Drop MS into debug mode and
> watch logs.
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> On Jul 28, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Mark Adams <mark at workshopit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   An update to this, the "2 or 4" duplicates showing in the exim log look
> like they are actually just separate deliveries to other addresses, so not
> duplicates. In 1 example there is a single email with 2 recipients (2
> entries in exim log) that has over 1500+ entries in the mailcleaner DB. It
> looks like this email hasn't been delivered to the recipient at all either.
>
> On 28 July 2015 at 15:14, Mark Adams <mark at workshopit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  If anyone could provide advice that would be great. Running Debian
>> Wheezy Mailscanner 4.79.11-2.2
>>
>>  Our incoming dir filled up just before the weekend so we didn't see the
>> issue for a couple of days. Normally we would just shut down mailcleaner
>> and delete the dir then start it up again and all would be ok. However on
>> this occasion, the root partition also become full because of the mysql DB
>> (it got to 14G in 2 days..).
>>
>>  For some reason everything started duplicating. I can see lots of
>> incoming messages in the exim logs with duplication (2 or 4 of what looks
>> like the same email) but in the mailscanner database there is hundreds of
>> each email listed (apparently there was over 9 million messages delivered
>> on 1 day compared with the server average of about 1500!)
>>
>>  It seems like some sort of loop, but afaik nothing specific was changed
>> in the config apart from the fact incoming became full. Space has been
>> cleared on the root partition and incoming, and everything appears to be
>> running as normal right now.
>>
>>  Any advice on debugging this would be much appreciated, also, how best
>> should I clear out the DB of all the dupes?
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>
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